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- Comment on Every dam time 2 days ago:
What I was getting at is why is the signal like that if most people don’t have the hardware to utilize it, and it’s a really bad experience with the more common hardware. Unless people with basic stereo is actually the minority
- Comment on Every dam time 3 days ago:
Do most people have that kind of setup? Almost everyone I know is watching from a basic tv, a shitty laptop, or with midrange headphones
- Comment on Modern Windows in a nutshell 3 days ago:
I read they’re using react, the JavaScript library, for the start menu. If true that strikes me as insane
- Comment on Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN 3 days ago:
Easier and harder are not the goal posts being discussed.
Back when game design was an actual artform, having a boss who’s easy with one build but terrible against another up-to-then valid build indicates BAD GAME DESIGN
“easy”
easy
EASY
Are you kidding me right now? Is this a bit?
- Comment on Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN 3 days ago:
Your post was nonsense. “You can’t have a boss that is strong against something else that used to work” is a stupid design “rule” you made up. Like every game that has meaningfully different builds is going to have parts that are easier or harder for a build.
- Comment on Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN 3 days ago:
Yes, for example, famously pokemon with the elemental gyms was bad design. You should totally be able to use your fire pokemon to fight the fire gym. /s
And certainly no other game has something like a fire elemental boss that you can’t use fire on.
There’s just such a contingent of people who get off on hating from soft. It’s tedious as heck
- Comment on Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN 4 days ago:
Except for some optional bosses I found it pretty chill. Most of the optional bosses that are hard have easier ways of dealing with them, too.
- Comment on Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN 4 days ago:
Using a tower shield and poke weapon was the easiest playthrough of the game I’ve done. Easiest of all the from soft games I’ve played, even. The final boss went down in 4 minutes and I barely had to heal.
I think a problem some people get with these games is they have a sort of tunnel vision. They’ll have a scimitar and lose to the boss lose to the boss lose to the boss, and they don’t really consider trying something else.
- Comment on Caves of Qud wins the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work 1 week ago:
I like the game but I never finished it. I got pretty far when setting it to checkpoint mode, but lost interest near the end.
I don’t really understand the game in detail so I don’t know all the good builds. Extra legs and guns seemed strong.
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 1 week ago:
Unless the conflict was like “someone close to me is giving birth” tier, he could have scheduled better.
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 1 week ago:
Ah yes, the classic “these things share one property so they share all properties” argument.
Blinking closes your eyes. You can safely drive and blink. Thus, you can drive safely with your eyes closed.
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 1 week ago:
Distracted driving is pretty irresponsible and dangerous.
Just this morning some guy blew through a stop sign and almost hit me. He had his cell phone in hand. Maybe he was on a meeting, too.
- Comment on Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. 2 weeks ago:
Well, yes. Capitalism and friends don’t care about a healthy society. They care about the owners having all the riches. This is inevitable without intervention.
- Comment on Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates' 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know. Some CEOs are pretty stupid
- Comment on Journey times up, deaths down: Welsh 20mph speed limit still divisive two years on 2 weeks ago:
Last week a small study by GoSafe, which monitors road cameras, found the policy had added an average of two minutes to journey times of differing lengths,
Two fucking minutes. People need to chill out.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 2 weeks ago:
That’s unusual, I think. Every computer I’ve had that had it on, I was able to turn it off when I went to install Linux.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 2 weeks ago:
I think you can reset a bios password by taking the CMOS battery out or something?
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 2 weeks ago:
If you have physical access you could go into the bios and turn off secure boot
- Comment on Nexon-owned game studio enters “indefinite strike” over employee bonuses allegedly being slashed while executive bonuses increased - AUTOMATON WEST 2 weeks ago:
Criminal penalties, “go into their office and cut off their hands”. Tomato, tomato.
- Comment on Alexa, how do I remove cooties? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, you’re probably not wrong, sorry.
Plenty of rich people are shitting up the internet, though.
- Comment on Alexa, how do I remove cooties? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if it’s true, but it feels like the Internet was better when it was limited to enthusiasts and people in higher education.
Letting every idiot post every word that comes to mind for the whole world to see was probably a mistake.
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 2 weeks ago:
My old desktop I went with Linux mint. I had some trouble with the installer that I didn’t solve, but switching to slightly older but still supported version of mint worked. Games worked out of the box with steam.
I was playing a MUD for a while (I’m old, but aardwolf is still going). They have a special client you can use. That worked just fine through WINE.
On my newer desktop, I tried mint. I foolishly didn’t test much on the live disk, and only after installing did I realize HDMI, Ethernet, WiFi, didn’t work. Proton also crashed explosively. That was a bad time.
I then tried pop!_os and that has worked fine. I haven’t played much yet on it- just my usual guild wars 2 and binding of Isaac, but it’s been fine.
There was a weird issue with audio crackling in gw2, but I think I fixed that by changing a setting somewhere.
I also recently installed mint on a ~2014 MacBook Air. Not for gaming, but so it can get security updates and stuff. I needed to fuss with grub - something I never would have figured out on my own by someone on stack exchange had figured out - and now it works fine. Haven’t done any games on it, but I bet it could run really light stuff better than it could have as a Mac.
Generally, I’m a big fan of it not nagging me. It doesn’t ask me to use OneDrive. It doesn’t want me to make an account anywhere. Pretty much everything can be changed if you’re determined enough. I’m pretty easy to please though, so all I’ve done for customization is add a clock widget to the desktop and turn off edge tiling.
One thing that I expect might be a headache is mods. A lot of mod tooling I think makes assumptions about windows. There’s probably a way to run like vortex in the same environment as whenever proton puts the game, but I’m not sure how to do it. You can also probably find where the game files are easily and edit them. I’m hoping the community starts adopting Linux more so people write guides (and please write them on the public web instead of making 20 minute videos or burying them in discord)
Luckily Baldur’s gate 3 (which also runs fine) has its own mod manager, and that works fine.
Oh, I did have a weird thing once where the desktop environment had a keybind that was interfering with a game once. I think middle click, maybe? I forget exactly what it was, but I just unmapped the keybind in the desktop env and the game was then fine.
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 2 weeks ago:
In the romulan disruptor kind of way?
- Comment on Houston Pastor convicted in $3.6M fraud case returns to Church after prison release. "It's such a blessing to have our visionary pastor back at church. We are so excited." 2 weeks ago:
For many people, in-group is the only thing that matters.
- Comment on Pharmacist 2 weeks ago:
I remember once in college buying condoms when the cashier was my (woman) friend’s mom. I’m pretty sure she thought I was fucking her daughter, since we hung out a lot, but I wasn’t and had no interest. Still got a stink eye.
- Comment on Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3% 2 weeks ago:
For anyone in the future, I figured out how to turn off the edge tiling thing (which is what it’s called when a window touches the edge and it wants to resize it)
gsettings set org.gnome.mutter edge-tiling falseper askubuntu.com/…/how-to-disable-auto-resizing-of-w… - Comment on Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3% 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think I know what gamemode is. Is it github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode ?
I’ll do some searching for crackling next time I’m at the desktop
- Comment on Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3% 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I don’t get it when just playing music or watching video. It’s mostly been when playing Guild Wars 2 in scenes with a lot of players. I wonder if there’s something like “when the CPU is in high demand, the audio gets less priority” happening. I saw some posts about a cpu “niceness” value but I’m not familiar enough to fuss with it, and it’s not a big deal right now.
- Comment on Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3% 2 weeks ago:
I switched to linux because fuck microsoft. So far it’s been fine. A minor issue with crackling in the audio in one game, and I can’t figure out how to disable the “drag a window to the edge and it wants to tile it” thing (popos with the default gnome desktop environment). But those are minor things- my windows install I couldn’t get the bluetooth to connect to one device, and a bunch of other little annoyances were inescapable.
- Comment on It would get old fast 3 weeks ago:
Hell. I don’t want a huge house. And where’s the commerce and culture?